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The Wheeling Repository
Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia
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In Champagne County, a man named Boyer was murdered by five Indians on the 25th ultimo while burning logs in his new ground; he was shot twice, tomahawked, and scalped, with peculiar signs left on his body, alarming frontier inhabitants but no further violence reported.
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A gentleman from Champagne county informs us, that on the 25th ultimo a man by the name of Boyer, who lived in that county, was murdered by the Indians. While he was burning some logs in his new ground, the Indians, five in number, came near to where he was, and shot him twice. Being only wounded by the first fire, he attempted to make his escape; but being fired at a second time, he fell. The Indians then tomahawked and scalped him in a most shocking manner, and laid some peculiar signs on his back, which could not be accounted for by the oldest warriors among the whites. This melancholy circumstance has alarmed the inhabitants of the frontier counties very much; but we are happy to learn that no other act of violence has been committed by the Indians.
Some supposed that they were prompted to the above inhuman and daring act, in consequence of the brother-in-law of the deceased having burned an Indian camp last spring. It is also thought, that the Indians mistook Boyer for the person who had done them the injury.
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Champagne County
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On The 25th Ultimo
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boyer shot twice, tomahawked, and scalped; no other acts of violence committed by the indians
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While burning logs in his new ground, Boyer was approached by five Indians who shot him twice; he attempted to escape after the first shot but fell after the second, after which the Indians tomahawked and scalped him in a shocking manner and left peculiar signs on his back. The act may have been in retaliation for Boyer's brother-in-law burning an Indian camp last spring, or due to mistaking Boyer for that person.